Faulkner portrayed Emily Grierson, not as a murderous madwoman, but as a desperate woman who lost everything. Her father, the only man in her life, kept her from marriage and happiness. Abandoned by her sweetheart and ostracized society after the family fortune was gone and her father died, she spen...

A Story of Isolation In the short story "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner tells the sad story of Miss Emily's unstable state of mind. The theme in this story is that of isolation. Here is a woman who never left the sanctity of her home for something like 30 years. She did gi...

Thank God for the spring flowers, she said, and thank God for the garden that was behind her house, filled with beautiful, colors only the beginning of the season, but still in ravishing bloom. Thank God she was here, she said, admiring the magnificent view, the garden, and thanks for the...

Emily Grierson is a very quiet person who kept to herself a lot. She's not very sociable and stays in her house and doesn't even talk to the people in her town. Emily lives in the past because of her fathers death and she stays in her house alone and excludes herself from the town. Then, ...